persistence
The property of being persistentThe property of being persistent.
» Tom lacks persistence.
Es mangelt Tom an Durchhaltevermögen.
Тому не хватает настойчивости.
Тому бракує наполегливості.
Meaning
4 senses(countable, uncountable)The property of being persistent.
You've got to admire her persistence. She's asked him out every day for a month even though she keeps turning him down.
Ausdauer, Bestand, Beständigkeit
насто́йчивостьnastójčivostʹ, упо́рствоupórstvo
persistent determination
(countable, uncountable)Of data, the property of continuing to exist after the termination of the program.
Once written to a disk file, the data has persistence: it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.
(countable, uncountable)Continuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics).
(countable, uncountable)The number of times an operation can be iteratively applied to a number before it reaches a permanently constant state.
The persistence of the number 39 under the operation of multiplying the digits of the number is three, because 3x9 = 27, 2x7 = 14, and 1x4 = 4, and no further iterations will change the number again.
Examples
29 sentencesTom lacks persistence.
Тому бракує наполегливості.
ruТому не хватает настойчивости.
deEs mangelt Tom an Durchhaltevermögen.
I admire your persistence.
Persistence will pay off.
ruУпорство окупится.
Persistence pays off.
ruУпорство окупается.
Persistence makes anything possible.
Translations
7 languagesBy meaning 1
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Origin
From Middle French persistance, from persistant, from Latin persistēns, from persistō. ByFrom Middle French persistance, from persistant, from Latin persistēns, from persistō. By surface analysis, persist + -ence.
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Forms
plural: persistences| Singular | persistence |
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regular
Synonyms
8 synonyms- the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior:perseveranceperseveration
- the property of a continuous and connected period of time:continuity
- persistent determination:doggednessperseverancepersistencytenacitytenaciousnesspertinacity
Word family
8 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable